22 Salmon j* Herbal. Lib. I. 
' \ HI. 'I he Cataplafm. It has the Virtues of the 
Ointment, opens the Pores of the Skin more, and 
prcv, ii!s aga i nft Scabs, Scurff, Morphe w, Leprofie,^ c. 
XiX'. The ? Alafticatory. It has all the Virtues of 
the Gatgarifm, but is better to be ufed by fuch as 
cannot away with the other. It’s made of the Root. 
XX. The Pefjary. It is made either of the Root 
or Juice, with Wax and Barley-flower, and is put 
up into the Womb, to bring down the Courfes. 
CHAP. XV. 
Of Garden ANGELICA. 
I.' E Names. It is called in Greek , 
X (and yet fome Authors fay it was unknown to 
the Greeks , unlefs by fome other Name) in Latin An- 
gelica • and fo alfo in Englifh : and by this Name it 
is called in almoft all European Nations, fo far as 
their Dialed! will admit : Cordus will have it to be 
Panax Heracleum , but this I much queftiQn ^ yet 
according to its Virtues, it may very well be account- 
ed among the number of the All-heals : but its con- 
denfed Juice is no Opopanax. Others, as Dodonceus 
and Lacuna , will have it to be a kind of Laferpiti- 
um , or Laferwort, but of that fee lib. 3. cap. 115. 
and 1 1 5 . of this prefent Work. . 
II. The Kinds. There are four feveral kinds of 
Angelica ; as, 1 . The Garden Angelica. 2. The 
Wild. 3. The Water Angelica. 4. The Mountain 
kind of which laft we (hall fay nothing in this 
Book. 
III. The Defcription. Our Garden Angelica has 
a Root , which is great and large, fomething pulpy be- 
fore flowering-, but after flowering it becomes woody, 
extending it fclf into many and long Arms or 
Branches , which perijh after Seed-time ; but if the 
Plant, by being often cut down, is kept from feeding, 
t he Root will then endure many years together : this 
Root, if cut or bruifed, fnells jlrong, and dif charges 
out of it fclf an Oily, or rather Gum my, Liquor, which 
being inf pi fated Helds no unpleafant Gum, and not 
much unlike to Opc panax, but yet it is not the fame 
thing. Prom this Root fprings forth divers large and 
fair fpread winged Leaves, half a yard long, and. 
fometmes longer, made of many great and broad ones , 
fet ufually one againft another on a middle Rib, of a 
pale, but frefh green colour, and dented about the 
edges •, from among which ufually arifes one round 
hollow Stalk, very thick, and four or five feet high 
with divers great Joynts, and Leaves fet on them 
whofe foot-Jlalks do encompafs the main Stalk at their 
bottoms -, and from thence alfo, towards the top, comes 
forth Branches, with the like, but le/fer Leaves at 
them -, and at their tops, there comes forth large 
round fpread Umhlcs of white flowers, after which 
comes the Seed, which is fomewhat flat, thick, Jhort 
and of a whitifh brown colour -, two always fet toge- 
ther, (as is ufual in thefe Umbelliferous Plants) 
which is a little crcfed on the round fide. 
IV. The Places. It is found in great plenty in 
Norway and Jfland, where it grows very high, and 
whole Inhabitants it is faid do eat it, for want ma- 
ny times of. other Food, peeling of!' the Bark: It is 
alfo faid to grow upon the Rocks, not far from Ber- 
wick : But with us, it grows only in Gardens, being 
iirft brought hither from beyond Sea. 
V. The Times. It flowers in July and Auguff, 
and the Seed is ripe not long after: if this Seed is 
luffered to fall of its own accord, it will more cer- 
tainly grow, than that which is gathered and fovvn 
by hand, at any other time. 
VI. The Vitalities. It is hot and dry in. the lecond 
degree ^ but Schroder faith in the third degree,- which 
I believe not. It opens, incides, attenuates or makes 
thin, Digefts, Difcuffes, and is Sudorifick. As to 
its appropriation, it isCephalick, Neurotick Car- 
diack and Hyllerick. It is Bezoardick or Alexipliar- 
mick, Vulnerary, and the molt famous of all Vege- 
table Alteratives. 
VII. The Specification. It is a peculiar Antidote 
againlf the Plague or Peftilence, and all malign, in- 
fectious and peftilential Difeafes: it is alfoan’An- 
tidote againft the Poyfon of Mad Dogs, the biting 
of Vipers, Rattle-fnakes, and other Serpents, or o- 
ther Venomous Creatures, and, as an All-heal Cures 
Wounds by the firft Intention : and is lingular againft 
the Scurvy in a cold Coriftiturion. 
VIII. The Preparations. The Shops fometimes 
keep hereof, 1. The dry ed Root. 1. The Seed. 3. 
A Tift Hied Water from the whole Plant. 4. A Juice 
from the frefh Root and Herb. 7. An ExtraJwlth 
Spirit of Wine. 6 . The Root Candy 0 d. 7. A Lift fi- 
led Oil which attends- with the Water. 8. A Bal- 
fam made with the faid Oil, and -Oil of Nutmegs. 
9. A Common Salt. Befides all thefe things, you 
may make therefrom, 10. A Syrup, n. A Deco- 
ttion. 12. A Wine. 13. A Spirit. 14. A Spiri- 
tuous Tin Jure. 1?. A Saline Tin Jure. 16. An 
Oily Tin Jure. 1 7. The Powers. 1 8. An Ejfence. 
Ip. A Balfam for W ounds. 20. AnOintment. 21. 
A Cataplafn). 22. A Cerote or Emplafter. 23. A 
Gargarifm. 24. An Errhine. The virtues and ufes 
of all which follows. 
The Virtues. 
IX. The dryed Root. Ufed as a Mafticatory, it 
attrads cold and moift humors out of the Head and 
Brain, and gives eafe in the Tooth-Ach : the Pouder 
thereof taken to j. dram, is good againft the bitings 
of Mad Dogs, Vipers, and other kinds of venomous 
Creatures, and alfo prevails againft the Pleurifie, 
Plague, and all other kinds of infectious Difeafes.’ 
Take of this Pouder j. dram, Mitfrridate a dram and 
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